Banksy In Bristol

Wikipedia describes Banksy as an ‘anonymous England-based street artist, vandal, political activist, and film director, active since the 1990s’ and we couldn’t do any better than that! While the artist is officially anonymous, it is fair to say that Bristol is his or her believed home as most of his earliest work originated on our streets. Some of the finest street art in Bristol can be credited to or is inspired by the mysterious artist. Here’s what we know:

His first known large mural was ‘The Mild Mild West’, painted in 1997 Stokes Croft in Bristol. It depicts a teddy bear throwing a supposed Molotov cocktail at three police officers in riot gear. Since then the art has been in many different mediums, from banknotes (Banksy notes) distributed at festivals, prints of famous faces altered to send a specific message (The Queen, model Kate Moss, Mona Lisa etc) and a 30-foot mural, entitled Fragile Silence on the side of a mobile home, which subsequently sold for an amazing £500,000.

You can enjoy a weekend in Bristol while taking in the artwork of one of Bristol’s most popular and mysterious residents. Banksy is known worldwide and worth an astonishing £38million, so we are honoured and privileged to have some of his notable works on public display in the city. Banksy no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public “installations” are regularly resold, often by removing the wall they were painted on. The artist is an opposer of “commercial success” and has discouraged people from buying his work but that doesn’t stop people cashing in

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